Comment by unsupp0rted
2 years ago
I applaud that you made a thing, and it's cool that you learned Rust, wrote a driver, did CAD, 3D printed... the works! It's far more than I can do.
But let's say all trading cards in the world were like the e-ink ones you invented, and then somebody came along and said, "I printed 52 trading cards on glossy card paper, in vibrant color. They are 1 millimeter thick, weigh practically nothing, and cost about a penny each to produce. The drawback is you have to shuffle them in your hands".
The paper version would be a massive upgrade in almost every sense.
The e-ink screen changes much more than that:
>The cards also contain a memory chip, so they can store stats, moves, and keep changes and status effects from one game to the next. ... >I think these cards have the potential to unlock a new paradigm of tabletop gaming. They are rooted in the physical world, but can implement complex game mechanics run by a computer.
e.g. Magic The Gathering has a TON of modifiers - +1/1 counters, etc - and this could live-update and keep track of those in a physical/offline setting.